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I haven't seen the first movie yet; I'll have to check it out.]]> Wednesday, May 22, 2013 02:59 PM Saturday, March 10, 2012 08:42 PM Sunday, March 11, 2012 11:12 AM You mentioned that the story of Gilgamesh seemed a bit "schizophrenic" to you because the story begins by praising him, but then continues on to recount all his failures...
I'm just wondering if you can't see the parallel here... David's life starts out pretty well, but he falls into sin as king over Israel. He has relations with Uriah's wife, Bathsheba, she becomes pregnant, and then David goes on to arrange Uriah's death on the battle field...Yet even though David commits this horrendous evil, God still singles him out as "a man after (His) own heart".
You're Jewish from what I know..I believe in having a personal, saving relationship with Jesus Christ. But I don't think either of us, even though our beliefs differ, would describe God as schizophrenic..and yet I see the way God narrates the history of the Jewish people in the Bible as being quite similar to the way the author narrates The Epic of Gilgamesh (based on how you described the book, because I have never personally read it). The story of the Bible starts out with God creating the heavens and the earth..breathing life into humanity..and placing Adam and Eve in a perfect environment...they had the beginnings of a wonderful and noble life, yet, like Gilgamesh, they, like the rest of humanity to follow, are more notable for their failures than for any success they may attain.

Let me know what you think..I'd love to hear your comments! ]]> Wednesday, August 11, 2010 09:17 AM Friday, January 15, 2010 04:30 PM
I think my friend William said it best: "What a great concept. A road novel with modern versions of ancient gods. Imagine if [the book] had been written by a really good novelist instead of a comic book writer."]]> Friday, January 15, 2010 04:41 PM Mike: Obviously I disagree! In fact, I disliked Good Omens so much, I couldn't even finish it.]]> Friday, January 15, 2010 06:07 PM Wednesday, November 25, 2009 03:56 PM Wednesday, November 25, 2009 04:41 PM Wednesday, November 25, 2009 05:18 PM
I have never encountered an atmosphere like it. An aching loneliness that gets under the ribs. Stifling remoteness.

This book must be read all at once, preferably in one day, otherwise the cloaking atmosphere is easily lost. A break in the rhythm is disastrous.

What a mind Mervyn Peake must have had. His imagination was seemingly limitless. He was an intensely lonely individual. Utter isolation inside his own head. That loneliness seems to have found its way inside of this book. There is a desolation here that is painful like claws.

Boy In Darkness is Mervyn Peake's exploration of the horror of being alone. Of the terror of the animal taking over the human. Of the fear of being hidden away in some vast, bleak, silent land, where a monster of silence awaits to crush out your life.

This is an existential novel of the finest purity. By the time you finish reading it, you will have been somewhere else entirely. Not in your world. If find such abstraction beautiful. Like cold mathematics in words. And the the language of it all is imaculate. Mervyn Peake's icy prose in all its glory in the shadows.

What an achievement. ]]> Monday, March 21, 2011 03:28 AM Saturday, December 13, 2008 03:20 PM Saturday, December 13, 2008 12:42 PM Monday, June 9, 2008 09:56 AM I couldn't disagree more.]]> Monday, June 9, 2008 10:13 AM Tuesday, June 10, 2008 09:10 AM IHasAHotDog would be a good remedy, too.]]> Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:29 PM Friday, April 25, 2008 06:45 PM Sunday, April 27, 2008 09:22 AM Monday, August 4, 2008 09:50 AM Titus Awakes were you reading? My version, the Tusk edition from 1992, begins on page 355 and concludes on page 363 (nine pages). It has the single chapter and the list that you mention, plus an introduction and a preadventure that you do not.]]> Saturday, August 2, 2008 03:57 PM Wednesday, October 5, 2011 03:53 PM
I've just finished reading Titus Alone myself (my review here: http://tinyurl.com/6cpqxq8) and have mixed feelings about it. Certainly it's a departure from the first two works in the series. ]]> Wednesday, October 5, 2011 09:41 AM
]]> Thursday, November 8, 2007 10:54 AM Thursday, November 8, 2007 12:49 PM Ender's Shadow does indeed sound intriguing...]]> Thursday, November 8, 2007 12:58 PM